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The William L. Cossler Family at their Daviess County, Kentucky Farm, about 1909

Variations of the surname:
Cossler, Cosler, Casler, Cassler, Kassler

The Cosslers were tradesmen, pioneers, rivermen, farmers, U.S. Marshalls, steamboat captains and cobblers. They arrived in America in the mid-1700s
from Germany.
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  Most of the information contained on this site is the result of many long hours of painstaking research by cousins Marilyn Cossler Garrison and Denis Hadley. This Cossler Family page is dedicated to them.
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Additional Facts:

Johannes Cassler
1692-1761
Born: Okriftel, Germany
Married 26 October 1712
Died: Before nov. 1761

Maria E. Bender
Born: 1695, Hoingen (Hungen), Germany

Anna Elizabeth Ruth
Born: 1719
Died: 26 Dec. 1752 in Philadelphia, PA
Buried in Potter Field in Philadelphia

Anna Goettel
Born: 1726 in Seligen, Rhenish, Bavaria

Anna Rosina Tanneberger
Born: 1750 in Bethlehem, North Hampton County, PA
Anna was the daughter of David Tanneberger and Anna Rosina Kern

Mary Carr
Born: 1780 in Baltimore County, MD

Elizabeth McCarty's Obituary
1800-1899
Born: Cheshire, Gallia County, Ohio
Died: March 12, 1899 in Youngstown, OH

Elizabeth McCarty Cossler's second husband was David Swain, whom she married 22 Nov. 1838 in Hancock Co., KY. Her third husband was John Bewick (coal miner) whom she married 3 Dec. 1842. They moved to Mahoning County, OH by 1850. Elizabeth's third husband was W.P. Jones.

Ludwig (Lewis) Cassler (Cosler) married Catherina Maser (Moser) on 13 September 1781, in Manheim, Lancaster Co., PA.

Jacob Cassler married Catherine Bartholomew.

Anna Elizabeth and Christina Cassler both died of small pox in 1769. They are buried in the Moravian Cemetery in Lititz.

Anna Christina Cassler married Abraham Levering on 26 August 1790 in Lancaster Co., PA.

Matthias Cassler married Margaret Rummage.

Wilhelm Cassler was a shoemaker in Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA

James W. Cossler married twice: Betsy Harmon in 1828, Catherine Stuteville in 1832.

Ladoska Cossler married Jesse S. Wartman from Spencer Co., IN. They had one child Harry.

William S. Cossler married Catherine Riddle

William Cossler was married twice; his second wife's name was Nancy Jones. They were married 11 December 1846. Mary Carr Cosler died in January of 1846.

Louisa J. Cosler married James Sloan (after James Abshire death ) on 3 November 1842 in Hancock Co., KY.
Sloan was a Scottish immigrant.
James Sloan was killed by Indians while in California mining for gold in 1849, leaving Louisa behind in Kentucky, a widow with 4 children.

Franklin G. Cossler and Johnson R. Cossler both served in the Union army in the Civil War.

Johnson R. Cossler was married three times and had children by all 3 marriages;
#1. Mary Ladoska Hampton
#2. Mildred Ladoska Vaught
#3. Sarah Frances Porter

Louisa Jane Cossler was married twice: 1st to Reuben Rouse and then to Dewitt C. Yates. Children by both marriages.

Martha Childress was born 15 Sept. 1813 in Halifax Co., VA and died 30 Jan. 1888 in Grissom's Landing, near Stanley, Daviess Co., KY

Martha Childress Cossler and Catherine Riddle Cossler were first cousins.

Ludwig Cassler's Life Story, in his own words

1. Johannes Cassler married Maria Elizabeth Bender

The children of Johannes Cassler & Maria Elizabeth Bender are:

  1. Henrich William Cassler, baptized: 22 December 1715, Langenselbold, Hesse, Germany, Germany
  2. Johann Ludwig Cassler, baptized: 3 April 1718, Langenselbold, Hesse, Germany, died: 10 September 1805 in Bethlehem, Northhampton County, PA
  3. Philip Henrich Cassler, baptized 20 October 1720
  4. Wilhelm Christian Cassler, baptized 17 February 1723, Langenselbold, Hesse, Germany

1. Johann Ludwig (Lewis) Cassler married Anna Elizabeth Ruth

The children of Johann Ludwig Cassler & Anna Elizabeth Ruth are:

  1. Johann (John) Cassler, born 26 September 1748, Germany
  2. Ludwig Cassler, born: 13 October 1751, Philadelphia, PA, died: 16 July 1752, Philadelphia, PA
  3. Peter Cassler, born: 13 October 1751, Philadelphia, PA, died: 3 August 1752, Philadelphia, PA

Johann Ludwig (Lewis) Cassler married Anna Christina Goettel in 1753.

The children of Johann Ludwig (Lewis) Cassler & Anna Christina Goettel are:

  1. Wilhelm Cassler, born: 12 July 1754, Philadelphia,PA, died: 6 May 1829, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA, died: 6 May 1829 in Lititz, Lancaster County, PA
  2. Ludwig (Lewis) Cassler (Cosler), born: 14 October 1756, Philadelphia, PA, died about November 1817, Greene Co., Ohio
  3. Jacob Cassler, born: 3 May 1758, Philadelphia, PA
  4. Elizabeth Cassler, born: 7 April 1760, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA, died: 19 April 1760, buried Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA
  5. Anna Maria Cassler, born: 1 April 1761, Warwick Twp. Lancaster Co., PA, died: 17 September 1781, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA
  6. Magdalena Cassler, born: 3 April 1763, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA
  7. Christina Cassler, born: 10 July 1765, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA, died: 27 April 1769, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA
  8. Anna Elizabeth Cassler, born: 18 July 1767, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA, died: 27 April 1769, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA
  9. Anna Christina Cassler, born: 30 May 1769, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA, died: 8 October, 1849, Bethlehem, Northampton Co., PA.
  10. Matthias (Matthew) Cassler, born: 15 April 1771, died: 24 September 1832, Northampton Co., PA

1. Wilhelm Cassler married Anna Rosina Tanneberger

The children of Wilhelm Cassler & Anna Rosina Tanneberger are:

  1. Wilhelm (William) Cosler, born: 11 May 1783, Lititz, Lancaster County, PA, died: 1854 in Hawesville, Hancock County, KY
  2. Davis (Lewis) Ludwig Cassler, born: 27 August 1785, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA
  3. Samuel Cassler, born: 5 September 1789, Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA.
  4. Johann Christian Cassler, born: 13 January 1792 in Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA
  5. Marie Salome Cassler, born: 9 August 1787 in Lititz, Lancaster Co., PA

    1. William (Cassler) Cosler married Mary Carr

    The children of William Cosler & Mary Carr are:

  1. Aquilla Cosler, born: 1803 possibly in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio
  2. James W. Cosler, born about 1805/1806, died 1837
  3. John G. Cosler, born about 1810
  4. William S. Cosler, born 5 July 1812 in Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, died 4 August 1870, Daviess Co., KY
  5. Louisa Jane Cosler, born about 1816 in Virginia (possibly Kanawha County, WV)

    1. Aquilla Cosler married Elizabeth McCarty in 1824 in Gallia Co., Ohio.

    The children of Aquilla Cossler & Elizabeth McCarty are:

  1. James William Cossler, born 14 Oct. 1825 in Cheshire Township in Gallia Co., Ohio
  2. Virginia Cossler

2. James W. Cosler married Catherine Stuteville in 1832 in Spencer Co., IN.

The children of James W. Cosler & Catherine Stuteville are:

  1. Ladoska Cossler, born about 1836
  2. Samuel W. Cossler, died before 1857

3. William S. Cosler married Catherine Riddle on 27 September 1832 in Spencer Co., IN.

The children of William S. Cosler & Catherine Riddle are:

  1. Minerva Cossler, born about 1833, died about 1867
  2. Franklin G. Cossler, born in 1838, died before 1888.
  3. Johnson Riddle Cossler, born 6 March 1841 in Enterprise, Spencer Co., IN, died 28 September 1922 in Vanderburgh Co., IN.
  4. Louisa Jane Cossler, born: 18 April 1845, died: 28 October 1911, Daviess Co., KY

William S. Cosler married Martha A. Childress (Patsy) on 15 July 1845 in Spencer Co., IN

The children of William S. Cosler & Patsy Childress are:

  1. William Lewis Cossler (Lewis), born 11 January 1848, died 29 July 1927
  2. James Thomas Cossler, born 28 February 1850, died 15 July 1926

4. Louisa J. Cosler married James Abshire on 15 July 1833 in Spencer Co., IN.

The children of Louisa J. Cosler & James Abshire are:

  1. Joshua Cosler
  2. James W. Cosler